The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Thomas Fuller

Bad excuses are worse than none.
Thomas Fuller

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac Asimov

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Walter Winchell

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana

Slander is worse than cannibalism.
John Chrysostom

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
John Owen

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton